Kushan

Pretty sure this is just part of the “give them a terrible deal they wouldn’t agree to” strat that means Trump can say “we gave them a very good deal and they refused, Russia can do what they want”.

It’s all bullshit and always has been.

Yup most of the hubs can do modem mode so you should be fine there. I believe their FTTP Hub can’t do it but that’s not in many areas.

Virgin will definitely be faster, they’ll do up to a gigabit. Hopefully open reach rolls out fibre to you soon. I only got the fibre to my house last month!

We’re testing this same tech in the UK as well: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/02/openreach-and-nokia-claim-uks-first-live-test-of-50gbps-broadband.html

China might be a little ahead but it’s hardly a leapfrog.

Yup it’s great

I use uptime kuma to check my certificate isn’t going to expire.

Also tells me if any of my services are down.

Only if that channel was private. You don’t have to join a channel to be able to read its contents.

Yeah my boys are a good few years old now, I think they’re nearly 9!

But what a fun little coincidence 😁

Yup, sheer incompetence rather than malice is my guess. Meta has nothing to gain by promoting windows.

Haha, not strays, they were part of a litter that a friend’s cat had. I’m based in the UK :)

Here they are!

Holy shit, I have two cats that are brothers from the same litter that look just like them!

Not a clue!

Why are you excited at the prospect of less competition in the gaming space?

You don’t have to like Microsoft at all, don’t buy their stuff, but they’re still a major competitor to Sony, Nintendo and Valve - and losing them would do more harm than good. Losing any of them would.

Edit: seems a lot of folks miss the point, I’m not defending Microsoft’s practices, I’m saying having more competition is better.

Sony and Nintendo are not angels either. Even valve has it’s bad points. You can by all means pick a side but less competition is always worse.

The Stone of Madness

Am I correct in saying that you’re used to languages that aren’t type safe? Or at least not as strict about it.

Everything you’re describing sounds more like you’re struggling with type safety in general and I wouldn’t say any of those packages are at fault, in fact I’d even go further and say they’re like that by design.

The reason you don’t actually want any of those separate packages to be more interoperable out of the box is because that would couple them together. That would mean dependencies on those packages, it would mean if it wanted to use something else then you’d be a bit stuck.

Like I’d question using a uuid as a salt, like it’s fine and I get why they’re suggesting it, but you can use anything as a salt so why couple yourself to a specific uuid library? Why couple yourself to uuids at all.

Side note: I’m guessing the reason the crate expects you to supply your own salt is because you need to also store the salt next to the password hash, if it generated the salt for you there’s a chance you might ignore the salt and suddenly not be able to validate passwords.

Anyway…

The only way you could make these separate packages work dramatically together and without coupling them would be to use a universal type - probably a byte array - and at that point you lose most of the benefits of a strong type system. What are currently compile errors become runtime errors, which are much worse and harder to diagnose.

My suggestion to you would be to reframe your thinking a little, think less about how you can make different crates speak to each other and more about how you convert from one type to another - once you crack that, all of these integration problems will go away.

I actually want this update but Windows Update isn’t serving it to me yet

Rust is completely correct to be a dick about it as well. Type safety is there for a reason.

I don’t know why LTT are somehow the bad guys in this, they weren’t the only ones to realise that the extension messed with their affiliate links and it’s not like it’s a thing to publicly shout about every dropped sponsor.

I bet LTT has dropped plenty of sponsors without making a big public deal about it.

I gave up on spirited away half way through it.

Ghibli it’s very hit and miss for me, it’s either really amazing or really tedious and boring.

"It was so busy. And everyone’s naked and p***ed.

“And I was there in my tweed coat, looking like a complete lunatic. And one guy, as we were filming, made eye contact with me, and I thought, don’t look at him, don’t look at him. Don’t look him in the eyes.”

The comic continued: "And then I caught his eye, and he came over to me, this drunken guy.

“I didn’t see where he went, but apparently he was going to go for me, wasn’t he? And the security guys launched at him.”

That’s how the actress herself describes the incident, make of that what you will.